Sentence examples for To wilful from inspiring English sources

Margaret Heffernan The distinguished businesswoman and writer examines what makes humans so prone to wilful blindness.

In an article also published in English, the magazine's UK correspondent said Britain's plans amounted to "wilful self-mutilation".

The schedule is secret, leaving the programming open to wilful collisions, jarring juxtapositions, a flow of interruptions.

More than any other colonial society, Australia consigns its dirtiest secrets, past and present, to wilful ignorance or indifference.

"Once the truth was finally uncovered the horrific catalogue of failings clearly amount to wilful neglect of duty on her part".

Alsop would have been a sculptor had he not been an architect, although at times his designs owe as much to wilful aesthetics as to functional priorities.

Hough had to submit to their wilful changes of speed and articulation, and at times, he was taken to the limits of his virtuosity and stamina to keep up with them.

Everything went speedily and well and the movie brought professional fame and critical respect to both, though due to a wilful failure by United Artists to publicise the film, financial success did not come to Kubrick until Spartacus.

It is in fact based on the Poor Law Amendment Act 1868 and its replacement in 1933, which referred to the same requirement for neglect to be "wilful", and for the child to be subjected to "unnecessary suffering".

It's one thing to pair Lang Lang with accompanists who are prepared to subordinate themselves to his wilful playing and look-at-me platform antics.

Rogers' departure so close to the start of Brexit negotiations amounted to a "wilful and total destruction of EU expertise", according to the former top civil servant at the Treasury.